Rice Meal
Rice Meal appears in 45 indexed US food products. No FDA SAFFA status or CSPI rating is attached in this snapshot, so this page reports prevalence rather than a safety verdict.
What the data can answer
Rice Meal appears in 45 catalogued products, but this snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to it. This page therefore cannot answer whether the ingredient is safe from those sources. It can show how often it occurs, where it tends to sit on labels, and which kinds of products contain it.
- 45
- catalogued products
- #5,333
- usage rank of 247,206
- 29
- named brands represented
- 28%
- average depth down ingredient lists
Catalog prevalence comes from Open Food Facts ingredient lists. FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine labels are shown only when the source record contains them.
High-volume listing for Rice Meal - usage rank #5,333
- Usage rank
- #5,333
- of 247,206 ingredients that appear in at least one catalogued product, tied with 86 others that also appear in exactly 45 products.
- Typical depth in an ingredient list
- 28%
- Mean relative depth 28% across 45 parsed labels, slot 10.6 on average. Rice Meal tends to sit in the upper half of the list. Depth is location on the label, not a measured dose.
Derived by this site from the ingredient lists of every catalogued product (Open Food Facts), recomputed on each data refresh. 247,206 ingredients have at least one appearance and are ranked here. Usage and list position describe prevalence, not safety.
How to use this page
Use prevalence before concern
Only 17.8% of linked products carry any separately flagged ingredient. The stronger differentiator here is market placement: Rice Meal spans 29 named brands and is led by the Snacks group. Start with Biscotti; Black berry with acai; CauliPuffs when comparing real formulations. Because the flagged component may be something else, neither the low co-occurrence rate nor the 98.7/100 product average proves this ingredient safe.
29 named brands carry this ingredient
The processing evidence is heterogeneous rather than a single shelf pattern: the largest NOVA group contains 37 of 43 classified products, leaving a meaningful remainder elsewhere. This breadth is why the page reports label depth, category, and product examples separately. Those dimensions help locate comparable products; combining them into a stronger safety claim would hide the variation the catalog actually contains.
Next check: compare label position across two brands before treating prevalence as equivalent exposure.
What else is usually in the same product as Rice Meal
Across the 45 products on this site that list Rice Meal, these flagged additives appear alongside it most often. The comparison column is how often each one appears across every product with a parsed ingredient list, so the two figures are measured over the same set. Caramel Coloring shows up about 2.7x more often with Rice Meal than in the catalogue at large.
| Additive | Shared products | Share of Rice Meal products | Share of all products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caramel Coloring | 7 | 15.6% | 5.7% |
Co-occurrence describes what manufacturers formulate together. It is not a claim that these additives interact, and it carries no regulatory meaning. Counted over products with parsed ingredient lists; Open Food Facts, 2026-09-01.
How do the sampled products compare?
Each point is one of the 16 sampled products listed below: its overall safety score against how many separately flagged ingredients its label carries. Bubble size is the number of ingredient rows the label actually resolved to.
Safety score vs. flagged-ingredient count for products containing Rice Meal
Products Containing Rice Meal
High-volume slice (16 of 45) for products naming Rice Meal:
Peer ingredients with comparable catalog mass
Rice Meal sits among other busy catalog rows (45 products, mean score 98.7/100). Count peers and score peers are listed separately on purpose.
Similar mean product score
Mean product-score neighbours (≥50 scored products), kept separate from the product-count peers above.
Next steps from the Rice Meal page
Use the 45-product footprint and source labels as a starting point, then inspect the records most relevant to your question.
- Check the listed products containing Rice Meal before treating the aggregate count as a personal conclusion. Open product sample
- Compare another ingredient’s source-backed rating, FDA status, and product footprint. Open a peer record
- See the join rules behind screening scores before reading them as dietary advice. Open methodology
This page describes published source classifications and product-label coverage. It is not dietary, allergy, or medical advice.
Rice Meal — common follow-ups
Why is there no FDA/CSPI verdict on Rice Meal? ▼
This snapshot has no FDA SAFFA status or CSPI Chemical Cuisine rating attached to Rice Meal, so PlainFoodSafe does not present a source-backed safety verdict. The page reports catalog prevalence (#5,333 of 247,206 ingredients) and label position instead.
Which product shelves show up most often with Rice Meal? ▼
Rice Meal ranks in the top decile by product count (#5,333 of 247,206), appearing in 45 indexed products led by Snacks. The sample list below is a slice of that footprint, not the full universe.
Why is Rice Meal so common on ingredient lists? ▼
The source record does not name a technical effect, yet Rice Meal appears in 45 products (#5,333 usage rank). High prevalence here describes formulation frequency, not an approved use level.
Regulatory status: FDA SAFFA (Rice Meal). Safety ratings: CSPI Chemical Cuisine; product presence: Open Food Facts via PlainFoodSafe (September 2026). Figures are computed from those sources, no editor-typed counts. Methodology · State regulations.